Time's Top 100 TV Shows Of All Time

The 100 greatest TV shows of all time, selected by Time magazine. Each title links to Time's commentary on why it was chosen and a clip.

I'm glad to see: Beavis & Butthead, Lost, Freaks & Geeks, Larry Sanders, both versions of The Office, Alfred Hitchcock, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Leave It To Beaver.

Huh?: Sex & The City, Felicity, Wiseguy, Buffalo Bill, Six Feet Under (overrated), SpongeBob (it's a fine kids' show but not Top 100 material).

A very special LOTD shout-out to: M*A*S*H, which makes every "best TV show" list ever made. Can I share a little secret with you? Come a little closer so you can hear me. Ready? M*A*S*H sucks. (audience gasps) Yes, that's right. Let me repeat. M*A*S*H S*U*C*K*S! I don't care how "classic" it is. I don't care how many "best of" lists it makes. I don't care how many Emmys it won. It sucks donkey balls. The show isn't funny. Alan Alda sucks. Jamie Farr sucks. Loretta Swit sucks. Gary Burghoff sucks. Don't believe me? What have they done since M*A*S*H? Nothing. Why? Because they suck. And M*A*S*H sucks. You heard it here. The two-hour series finale that everybody in America watched back in 1980 or whenever? It SUCKED. Hard. I read a statistic once that a kabillion toilets across America flushed simultaneously right after the M*A*S*H finale ended, and I wasn't at all surprised, because that finale -- like the entire series -- was a giant turd that needed to go. Sorry, kids. The truth hurts, but I owe it to you. Because I care about you.

Wasted picks: "MTV 1981-1992," The Day After, "The Super Bowl (And Its Ads)," and other events, movies, networks, decades, whatever that don't belong here.

Has Time never heard of: The Andy Griffith Show, The Rockford Files, The Brady Bunch, Laugh-In, E.R., Lonesome Dove (as long as we're including miniseries), The Waltons, Charlie's Angels (yeah, it sucked, but it was groundbreaking). All better than M*A*S*H*.

• 24
• 60 Minutes
• The Abbott and Costello Show
• ABC's Wide World of Sports
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• All in the Family
• An American Family
• American Idol
• Arrested Development
• Battlestar Galactica
• The Beavis and Butt-Head Show
• The Bob Newhart Show
• Brideshead Revisited
• Buffalo Bill
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Carol Burnett Show
• The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Cheers
• The Cosby Show
• The Daily Show
• Dallas
• The Day After
• Deadwood
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
• Dragnet
• The Ed Sullivan Show
• The Ernie Kovacs Show
• Felicity
• Freaks and Geeks
• The French Chef
• Friends
• General Hospital
• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
• Gilmore Girls
• Gunsmoke
• Hill Street Blues
• Homicide: Life on the Street
• The Honeymooners
• I, Claudius
• I Love Lucy
• King of the Hill
• The Larry Sanders Show
• Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)
• Leave It to Beaver
• Lost
• Married... With Children
• Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• M*A*S*H
• The Monkees
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Moonlighting
• MTV 1981-1992
• My So-Called Life
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• The Odd Couple
• The Office [American]
• The Office [British]
• The Oprah Winfrey Show
• Pee Wee's Playhouse
• Playhouse 90
• The Price Is Right
• Prime Suspect
• The Prisoner
• The Real World
• Rocky and His Friends
• Roots
• Roseanne
• Sanford and Son
• Saturday Night Live
• Second City Television
• See It Now
• Seinfeld
• Sesame Street
• Sex and the City
• The Shield
• The Simpsons
• The Singing Detective
• Six Feet Under
• Soap
• The Sopranos
• South Park
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• SportsCenter
• Star Trek
• St. Elsewhere
• The Super Bowl (and the Ads)
• Survivor
• Taxi
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
• The Twilight Zone
• Twin Peaks
• The West Wing
• What's My Line?
• WKRP in Cincinnati
• The Wire
• Wiseguy
• The X-Files
• Your Show of Shows